'Gingerbread work' definitions:
Definition of 'Gingerbread work'
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- Gingerbread \Gin"ger*bread`\, n. A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes. "Gingerbread that was full fine." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Gingerbread tree (Bot.), the doom palm; -- so called from the resemblance of its fruit to gingerbread. See {Doom Palm}.
- Gingerbread work, ornamentation, in architecture or decoration, of a fantastic, trivial, or tawdry character. [1913 Webster]